Today Disney held a small event at Walt Disney World's Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa. Hosted by Vinylmation Product Manager Steven Miller, the event served as a great introduction and Q&A session for those that were unfamiliar with the Vinylmation concept. For Vinylmation veterans, today was mainly just a refresher course on this great product line, but we were still able to walk away with some brand new information to share.

- Tins will be retired down the road in exchange for a new window box packaging. The packaging will be cardboard, but a piece of the box can be removed in order to create a base for the figure to rest on. The base will feature the name of the design, but we aren't yet sure how this will work yet since Vinylmation figures are not given official names.

- Trading will be expanded into the parks. Within the next two months, several major locations around Walt Disney World, Disneyland and Disneyland Paris will receive mystery trading cases like the ones that are used at Disney Trading Nights and Artist Signings. These mystery cases are display cases that have been blacked out with each cell numbered. Those wishing to trade will off up their current figure, choose a number, and then receive the figure that is in the cell that corresponds with the number they chose.

Those that are less adventurous will find a new trading case that displays three figures at a time. Guests will be able to choose, which they would like to trade for. Their traded figure will then be placed into the box to take the spot of the figure they received.

- Steven said that eventually they would like to introduce specific figures that can only be obtained by trading with a Cast Member. However, this will not occur anytime soon.

- The Big Eyes series which will be released this year will be window boxed, meaning you will know which figure is inside.

On Display today were two new Nightmare Before Christmas designs which will be released in October 2010, as well as concept art for several new DVC Exclusive designs. Take a look...

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